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Animated Scroll Down Arrow
There are cases where you want to bring your user’s attention towards what lies below the scroll. A site can have multiple folds of important content. The user's screen is finite and you don’t want them to leave without scrolling down.
Improving Perceived Speed With Critical CSS
Modern web browsing is all about first impressions. Google’s PageSpeed Insights benchmark declares a website slow if rendering the first contentful paint (FCP) is higher than 3 seconds. In contrast, a fast FCP is 1 second or less. As such, now more than ever, it is vital to focus on page performance just as much as the content. Even a bloated website can engage a relatively larger audience if it prioritizes the visible content first and makes a better first impression in terms of speed and responsiveness.
Are Service Workers Faster Than The Browser Cache?
Move over AppCache, there's a new API for building interactive, feature-rich applications: Service Workers.
Optimizing Backend Operations with Fragment Caching
When you think of web caching, you might picture a content delivery network (CDN), browser cache, or reverse proxy. These types of caches help deliver web pages and resources to visitors faster. But while these work great for static content, content that changes on each visit can be difficult or even impossible to cache, meaning your origin server has to do more work and respond to more requests.
What HTTP/2 Means for Frontend Development
The release of HTTP/2 in 2015 was a big win for the modern Web. While HTTP/1.1 worked well enough, it was built in an age before full two-way encryption, 1.9 MB web pages, and sub-3 second delivery times. We needed a modern protocol for a modern web, and HTTP/2 promised to deliver.